Thu Jul 25, 2019, 08:49 AM
Ohiogal (19,024 posts)
Lordstown GM Workers Protest Outside W. Va. Trump Fundraiser
For all the good it will do ........
WHEELING, West Virginia (WKBN) – President Trump was in Wheeling, West Virginia Wednesday for a private fundraiser for his reelection campaign, but he was met by a group of laid-off GM Lordstown workers. The workers protested Trump’s visit, claiming he is not keeping his promises. One of them worked at Lordstown 38 years. Another had to find another job. “He said all these jobs are coming back and so far, it’s been exactly the opposite. Every community’s been touched by somebody having to leave, or go somewhere or their seniority couldn’t take them anywhere so they have no job at all,” Ronald Clark said. “I would like for the head of state to uphold the promises that he made to the people of the Mahoning Valley — protecting Ohio jobs because we’re not seeing anything that shows anything that he said was truthful,” Braylin Rushton said. https://www.wkbn.com/home/gm-lordstown-workers-protest-outside-of-trump-visit-in-west-virginia/ **Edit: Gov. DeWine made sure he attended this ShitStain fundraiser with coal mining magnate Robert Murray ....
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Ohiogal | Jul 2019 | OP |
redstatebluegirl | Jul 2019 | #1 | |
TheCowsCameHome | Jul 2019 | #2 | |
Phoenix61 | Jul 2019 | #3 | |
Botany | Jul 2019 | #4 | |
TEB | Jul 2019 | #5 | |
Ohiogal | Jul 2019 | #6 |
Response to Ohiogal (Original post)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 08:52 AM
redstatebluegirl (11,392 posts)
1. At least some of the working class Trumpers are realizing they were had.
Response to Ohiogal (Original post)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 08:52 AM
TheCowsCameHome (39,957 posts)
2. Are they suggesting he lied to them?
*Gasp*
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Response to Ohiogal (Original post)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 08:55 AM
Phoenix61 (9,775 posts)
3. Oh no!!! He lied! Say it isn't so.
Did they expect that someone who stiffed his contractors would tell them the truth? Suckers!
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Response to Ohiogal (Original post)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 08:58 AM
Botany (59,194 posts)
4. And how many of those Lordstown GM workers voted for Trump in 2016?
I want to say I have sympathy for them but if they voted for Trump fuck 'em.
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Response to Ohiogal (Original post)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 09:29 AM
TEB (7,998 posts)
5. Any union workers
Who vote republican needs their head examined. And I work with many union workers who voted for trump I just don’t get it.
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